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Turnkey IoT Home Earthquake Monitor | RS 4D

Get your Raspberry Shake today and start watching the Earth move, shake and wiggle! Introducing the Raspberry Shake 4D – A serious upgrade with more sensors, more power and faster output.

Detect and record both strong or weak earthquakes and vibrations in all directions. Like the name suggests, the 4D has FOUR sensors. Combined with the geophone from the original Raspberry Shake, we have added 3 strong motion MEMs accelerometers to give the device a total of four recording channels.

Description

Introducing the Raspberry Shake 4D – A serious upgrade with more sensors, more power and faster output. Detect and record both strong or weak earthquakes and vibrations in all directions.

The unit is brand new and comes complete with all components, and the Raspberry Pi board – tried and tested and ready to shake.

Like the name suggests, the 4D has FOUR sensors. Combined with the geophone from the original Raspberry Shake, we have added 3 strong motion MEMs accelerometers to give the device a total of four recording channels.

The circuit board of the Raspberry Shake 4D incorporates four 24 bit digitizers, each sampling the Earth’s motion at 100 samples per second (double its predecessor). We have also been able to boost the data transmission rate from one packet per second to four, which makes our latest version of the Raspberry Shake Earthquake Early Warning compatible.

This is a complete ready-to-go, turn-key personal earthquake detection device or seismograph. It is a fully plug and play solution, great for the novice, home scientists, gadget lovers, and anyone who wants their 4D ready to go out of the box!

For your added peace of mind, we test the unit for a few days to make sure that every single software element is working to spec and that your Raspberry Shake is well calibrated.

Just take your Raspberry Shake 4D out of the box, plug it in and connect to see the Earth move.

The Raspberry Shake and some of the software that lives on the Raspberry Pi are licensed under the OSOP Raspberry Shake License. We have made this available at no additional charge for personal use. If you are interested in commercial or institutional use or some use other than for a personal hobby activity, please purchase the License. You can read the license terms here. Raspberry Shake is an OSOP Product.

Why Shake?

The Earth is always shakingggggg! From local tremors, traffic rumbling by, fracking & quarry explosions and even nuclear testing, to the BIG earthquakes that hit half a world away… NOW you can see it ALL! The fun begins with Raspberry Shake, your professional grade personal earthquake detection device – or “seismograph” as the Pros call it! Raspberry Shake conveniently snaps right onto Raspberry Pi, the most popular single-board personal computer in the tech world.

Raspberry Shake is a very clever little custom circuit board, that fits right onto the most popular single-board personal computer, the Raspberry Pi, transforming it into a professional grade personal seismograph. It is probably the smallest seismograph of its caliber in existence, but don’t let its size fool you – It can record earthquakes of all magnitudes, from the vanishingly small blips that are imperceptible to human senses, to the big destructive earthquakes that regularly happen around the world.

As soon as the Raspberry Shake is plugged in and set up, you can see, record and analyze the Earth’s motion in real time!

Measure earthquakes from half the world away imperceptible to your human senses but easily seen with your Raspberry Shake.

Become a citizen scientist, make a difference and share your data with seismic observatories worldwide

Monitor and analyze the data from any other Raspberry Shake’s in the global network (there are hundreds).

Check out our Android app and get instant earthquake updates on your phone

Each Raspberry Shake is carefully put together by our experts and built with industrial quality hardware

How does it work?

Raspberry Shake has two main components:

The main sensor is a geophone. You can think of it as a microphone for Earth vibrations. It is a rugged little Earth motion sensor that has been the standard in the oil exploration business for decades. As the Earth’s tectonic plates move about, as volcanoes erupt, as we inject fluids into the land around us (“frak-ing”) and as we build more high-rise buildings, the Earth’s brittle crust cracks and creaks. The geophone is an exquisitely sensitive sensor about the size of your thumb and has been finely tuned to accurately measure even the smallest disturbances.

The amplifier, digitizer and ARM processor. These things work in unison so that you can see the Earth’s motion continuously and in real-time on your computer screen.

How it all comes together: As the geophone captures the vibrations of the Earth, these vibrations are then amplified with ultra-quiet state-of-the-art Op Amps. Once amplified, the analog signal is digitized, the data is shipped to the ARM processor and bundled into one-second packets that are sent to your Raspberry Pi computer. The Raspberry Pi timestamps the data and stores it in a seismic industry standard data format (called miniSEED).

There are soooo many cool things you can do with your Raspberry Shake, for the novice and for the more advanced user.

For the novice, as soon as you are set up, you can start watching the Earth move and see if you can identify any patterns with local factors. These may include seeing spikes as your neighbor’s head out to work, traffic, construction and, of course, tremors and earthquakes or even volcanic eruptions! For the advanced user, there are tons of things you can jump into, from building your own enclosure to using / creating interpretation software to better understand what is happening around you – Whether it is to analyze tremors and earthquakes, or construction work, your washing machine’s spin cycles, local shale frak-ing and deep-well injection activities (hello Oklahoma!) and even football (soccer) games!

It’s fun to make, fun to program, and fun to watch the Earth moveeeeee!

Additional Informational

Model: RS 4D Magnitude 9

Raspberry Pi model included: Ships with 3 Model B

Connectivity: Wifi or Ethernet

System Requirements: Windows, Linux or Mac OS compatible

License: Free for school teachers / personal use. License must be purchased for government, research or commercial use.

Warranty: The Raspberry Shake circuit board and geophone components come with a one year guarantee.